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Your wife's company has simply instructed BT to install ADSL for you at home and to bill them for the rental. A direct link to your wife's company would be completely pointless and cost £1000's per year, and £100's to set up. ADSL costs £30 a month!

You can do what you like with the ADSL link and it won't affect your wife's work, and the company will never know. There is NO way for them to know. It is "your" line, paid for by her company.

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With Xbox live you pay your £40, then, when you sign on you enter your card details. Don't worry, this is so they can charge you in 1 years time for the next year. As for the LAN - I wholy recommend the Netgear DG814 router (if your ADSL is "presented" as Ethernet you can simply plug your xbox in without this, but you will temporarily knobbel her web access whilst you are playing). If not, then the DG814 will be your ADSL modem, your network router, your DCHP server, and a 4 port 100Mb switch.

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Originally posted by Dodgey Hi. Don't fret! I'm an IT director. I do this all the time.

Your wife's company has simply instructed BT to install ADSL for you at home and to bill them for the rental. A direct link to your wife's company would be completely pointless and cost £1000's per year, and £100's to set up. ADSL costs £30 a month!

You can do what you like with the ADSL link and it won't affect your wife's work, and the company will never know. There is NO way for them to know. It is "your" line, paid for by her company.

Get networking and get X-Box on line

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I wouldn't be so sure, BT and a number of BT resellers offer a service that VPN's the DSL directly into the corporate network, the company I work for does this.

It will work as long as the ports mentioned in the XBox docs on www.xbox.com are open. Which may not be the case.

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Yes MR IT DIRECTOR...Becareful about the advice you provide. I have designed and implemented several private xDSL (And all the other types of networks you can think off) for both data and voice and combined use.

Without knowing the exact configuration of the router you can't tell this for certain. As ADSL is slooooooowly becomming available in the UK is it very likely. BUT.....

If there is a connection to the company network from the ADSL line, 'the wife' should have some security tokens. SecureID keys are very popular and effective. If not, better not publish the name of the company here.....

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Now that is the interesting thing. If I knew the setup for your wife to access her company that it wouldn't be that secure would it.

(Please forgive the sarcastic tone, it has been a long day. I mean it well).

Considering the fact that you don't have to use anything to use the Internet there could be a couple of explanations:
1. It is a standard ADSL line and then everything is fine.
2. A connection has been setup using digital keys for identification so that the exchange of security tokens happens transparently. Not very secure as anyone in your house could access the network.
3. Security to access work for your wife is only done through userid and password (potentially some IP filtering if your account has a fixed IP address). Also not very secure.

Anyway the important point is that you seem to be able to use it for your purpose which is good. I just wanted to point out to Dodgey that his answer was Dodgey unless he knows your personally and thus might have insider knowledge of the configuration.

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Easy enough to check. Does she use a fully-blown mail client like Outlook (not express)? Can she access her office networked drives like you would access any other drive? Is there a small icon in the sys-tray that has any names like vpn, checkpoint, ike, 3-des, encryption in the name or settings? If so, she will almost certainly be using VPN over a normal ADSL link.

You can do a simple test to see if it is indeed going through a corporate firewall. Just install Kazaa and Audio-Galaxy satellite (file sharing programs). If you can get both to work OK then there is little chance you are going via her business, either that or her admins don't lock down their firewall much.

At the end of the day, it is far more likely she has a normal ADSL link than anything else and your £40 for Xbox live is a small investment to find out.

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Dodgy, By the sounds of it we have a normal adsl line. I'll go and buy the pack.

BT have connected us to broadband so now all the phone connections in my house have to have a filter for the phone line. Does that mean I'd have to get a second phone line to get BB for Live if I can't use the wifes?

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OK. I think I'm almost there. I've manually set up my IP Address, DNS stuff and MAC Address. The connection tester reports my IP and DNS settings are OK. I now get the error msg telling me "Xbox Live not Found". It also tells me it is either...